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up the center of the atom called the nucleus and the electrons fly around above
the nucleus in a small cloud.
An ion is a charged atom or molecule. It is charged because the number of
electrons do not equal the number of protons in the atom or molecule. An atom
can acquire a positive charge or a negative charge depending on whether the
number of electrons in an atom is greater or less then the number of protons in
the atom.
Science is the concerted human effort to understand, or to understand better, the
history of the natural world and how the natural world works, with observable
physical evidence as the basis of that understanding1.